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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who…
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,…
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that…
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out…
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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or…
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that…
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you…
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Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us.…
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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply…
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The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on…
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of…
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A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin,…
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It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her…
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It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a…
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my…
— Andrew Solomon
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The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect,…
— Mary Ruefle
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The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a…
— Fred Brooks
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Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse,…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.
— Christopher Hitchens
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A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic:…
— Steven Pinker
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You don't need to say any special incantation or sacrifice a stray cat or something first?
— Kevin Hearne
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I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step,…
— Francesca Lia Block
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